Alexander Beall

Mr. Beall is a cybersecurity researcher and project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in Laurel, Maryland. He leads interdisciplinary teams dedicated to rapidly advancing control system cybersecurity to protect critical national infrastructure. Since joining JHU/APL in 2017, Mr. Beall has established a state-of-the-art control system laboratory, where he has pioneered novel out-of-band communication technologies and developed innovative network enumeration and anomaly detection capabilities. Among his notable contributions is the development of Behavioral Alerting Sets for Control Systems (BAS/CS), an analytic framework designed to standardize and simplify the detection of advanced cyber threats. Additionally, he has been instrumental in advancing the MOSAICS framework as the Department of Defense's approach for comprehensive cyber situational awareness in facility related control system environments. Mr. Beall holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.